Socioeconomic status and age at menarche in indigenous and non-indigenous Chilean adolescents Nivel socioeconómico y edad de la menarquia en adolescentes chilenas indígenas y no indígenas

• Egile Nagusiak: Hugo Amigo (Egilea), Sofía Vásquez (Egilea), Patricia Bustos (Egilea), Guillermo Ortiz (Egilea), Macarena Lara (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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The objective was to analyze the relationship between socioeconomic status and age at menarche among indigenous and non-indigenous girls in the Araucanía Region of Chile, controlling for nutritional status and mother's age at menarche. A total of 8,624 randomly selected girls from 168 schools...